2013: CRN 28: Realist and Empirical Legal Methods Navigating New Terrain in Legal Education

Abstract:

Legal education around the world is in ferment as those training nascent lawyers struggle to adapt to a rapidly shifting landscape in global law. The presenters in this panel explore multiple sites in which these struggles are occurring, to generate a comparative conversation about changes in what it means to teach students to “think like a lawyer” as well as to practice like a lawyer.

Time: Friday, May 31, 8:15am- 10:00am
Place: Boston Sheraton Hotel, Room 06

Chair:

Carole Silver (Indiana University)

Discussant:

Silvina Pezzetta (CONICET UBA)

Participants:

French Schools of Law: Reconfigurations of Contemporary Legal Education for Elites
Rachel Vanneuvillle (CNRS)

Law Professors in New and Old Terrain
Elizabeth Mertz (American Bar Foundation/U. of Wisconsin), Katherine Barnes (University of Arizona)

Student Engagement: Comparisons between North America and Australia
Alex Steel (University of New South Wales)

Re-Thinking ’Thinking Like a Lawyer’: An Australian Prescription for a ‘Curriculum on Legal Ignorance’
Tony Foley (Australian National University), *Stephen Tang (Australian National University)

The Voice of a Stranger: Foreign Law Students’ Experiences of Culture, Law, and Pedagogy in American Law Schools
Mindie Lazarus-Black (University of Illinois, Chicago)

Law School Mergers
Elizabeth Chambliss (New York Law School)